Author Ethical Responsibilities


Funding and Acknowledgments: This may include administrative and technical support or donations in kind of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page of the manuscript and repeated before references.

In addition please provide the funding information in the Acknowledgements section in a separate step while submitting of manuscript process. Authors are responsible for providing the correct funder name. If the funding institution is not listed, it can be entered as text. Funding information will be published as searchable metadata for the accepted article, where acknowledgements are published on the page. If you have any doubt, the author must check the Open Funder Registry for the correct name. Visit Crossref Funder Registry

 

Author Contributions: Authors are required to include a statement of responsibility, to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data or drafting the work and substantively revising it. Authorship must include and be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work. Please visit and read the section concerning the authorship qualify criteria.

 

Data Availability Statement: Provide details regarding where data supporting reported results can be found, including links to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study or you might choose to exclude this statement if the study did not report any data.